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4 People Charged for Allgedly Defrauding Investors in Crypto and Precious Metal Scam

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission said earlier this week that it had filed a complaint against four individuals and their unincorporated entity for operating a fraudulent project involving precious metals and digital assets. The alleged scam had over 14,000 customers at one point. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Rene Larralde, Brian Early, Alisha Ann Kingrey, and Juan Pablo Valcarce. The group of four,...

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Tennessee Couple Faces CFTC Charges for ‘Blessings of God Thru Crypto’ Scheme

A Tennessee couple was charged for operating a $6 million digital assets commodity pool scheme by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) this week. The United States derivatives market regulator charged the owners of a Clarksville real estate company, Michael and Amanda Griffis, for allegedly defrauding more than 100 people across the country. The couple was also accused of failing to register with the CFTC in connection with a multi-million dollar commodity pool...

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SEC Files Suit Against Binance, Says It Mixed Customer and Company Funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made it very clear it doesn’t care if a crypto company is big or small. It will go after any digital currency enterprise with a persecuting hand, as it demonstrated yet again last month when it announced plans to sue Binance, the largest and most popular digital currency exchange in the world. The SEC and Binance Go Head to Head The news caused bitcoin and Ethereum to drop to their lowest points in just over two...

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CFTC Commissioner: We Can’t Stop All the Crypto Fraud

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has warned that while it’s doing all it can to end crypto fraud, it admitted that there’s nothing it can do about all the illicit activity out there, and thus there’s likely to be things here and there that vanish from its radar or go unnoticed. The CFTC Doesn’t Have that Much Power Christy Goldsmith Romero – one of five commissioners at the CFTC – announced in a recent interview that crypto cases account for roughly...

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Binance Faces Accusations that It Mixed Customer and Company Funds

Binance – the largest and most popular digital currency exchange – is in hot water again after former insiders alleged that the exchange combined funds from customers with those of the company. What Did Binance Do? In what could be argued as taking a page out of the FTX playbook, Binance is accused of not keeping customer and company funds separate. This would be a breach of U.S. financial rules. Binance has denied any wrongdoing. One of the insiders claims that...

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South Korea Regulator Delays Binance Acquisition of Gopax Due to SEC Lawsuit 

While Binance saw the acquisition of Gopax as a means of re-entering South Korea, it was also meant to be a turning point for the local trading platform. The SEC’s lawsuit against Binance has started affecting the company’s operations, particularly its acquisition of Gopax in South Korea. The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a case against Binance for violating securities law. According to the filing with the federal court in Washington, Binance mishandled investors and also...

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